Wärtsilä to Power World’s First LNG-Powered Offshore Construction Vessel
Finnish modern technology team Wärtsilä has actually been chosen to provide the engines as well as propulsion equipment for the initial overseas building and construction vessel to be powered by liquified gas.
The ship was bought in March by Belgian driver Dredging International (DEME) at the Cosco shipyard in China.
The 210-meter-long vessel, called ‘Orion’, will certainly be powered by 4 9-cylinder Wärtsilä 46DF dual-fuel electrical propulsion engines, as well as 2 6-cylinder Wärtsilä 20DF dual-fuel engines. Wärtsilä will certainly additionally provide 2 customized made retracting thrusters, 4 undersea removable thrusters, the Wärtsilä LNGPac storage space as well as supply system, in addition to appointing, website guidance as well as expanded job monitoring solutions. The Wärtsilä tools is set up for shipment to the backyard in the last component of 2017.
The ‘Orion’ is anticipated to be provided to the proprietors in 2018 as well as will certainly take on procedures entailing the installment of overseas windfarms in places around the globe.
“The decision to utilise clean burning LNG fuel represents our commitment to provide environmentally sustainable solutions for our operations. Wärtsilä has extensive experience and vast technological know-how in this field, which is why we have selected them as our partner in this project,” states Jan Gabriel, Head of newbuilding as well as conversion division at DEME.
“We are pleased to have been involved in this newbuild project from the conceptual design stage, since this enables our input on providing the most fuel efficient solution. We are also delighted that the Wärtsilä 46DF engine has been selected, as the dual-fuel version of this well proven and popular engine has only recently been introduced,” states Arthur Boogaard, General Manager, Business Development Special Vessels at Wärtsilä.
DEME is an enduring client of Wärtsilä as well as has, in recent times, made use of Wärtsilä services for various vessels, consisting of 3 receptacle dredgers, a wire installment vessel, a cutter suction dredger vessel, in addition to the ‘Orion’ overseas building and construction vessel.
